The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the Luna release, the annual release train from the Eclipse community. This year 76 projects are participating in the release that includes 61 million lines of code and was developed by over 340 Eclipse committers.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new Science Working Group — a global collaboration between industry, academia, and governments to create open source software used in basic scientific research.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse Kepler packages with the Java™ 8 support. These downloads contain the original Eclipse Kepler SR2 packages with Java™ 8 patches applied.

The Eclipse top-level project is very proud to announce official support for Java™ 8 for Eclipse Kepler SR2 (Eclipse 4.3.2). For details on how to discover and install the Java 8 support please visit our Java™ 8 support page.

This newsletter features three LocationTech projects: GeoGit, GeoMesa, and GeoTrellis,
as well as an article about Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Be sure to check out the user spotlight with Alexandra Schladebeck.

The Eclipse Foundation, the host of the Eclipse M2M Working Group, is pleased to welcome three new companies as members of the working group. 2lemetry, Bitreactive, and M2M Alliance have all joined the working group to participate in building a collaborative M2M and IoT community.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Fall 2013 Training Series, taking place between Oct. 21 and Nov. 30, 2013. These training classes are an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse4 RCP, Eclipse BIRT, Building OSGI/RCP applications with Maven/Tycho and Modeling Technologies.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the annual Eclipse release train. Each year, the Eclipse community of open source projects coordinates a major release at the end of June.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Spring 2013 Training Series. These training classes are an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse4 RCP, Eclipse BIRT, Building OSGI/RCP applications with Maven/Tycho and Modeling Technologies.

The technical program for the upcoming EclipseCon 2013 conference had been announced. The conference is being held March 25-28, 2013 in Boston, MA and will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The program has been announced for the second annual ALM Connect conference, co-located with EclipseCon 2013. ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

As is the tradition for the end of June, the Eclipse community celebrates the release of the annual Eclipse release train, this year code-named Juno. This is the ninth year the community has shipped a release train, and each year the release gets bigger. Juno represents the work of 72 project teams by 445 open source committers on 55 million lines of code, and the participation of 40+ Eclipse member companies.

The Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group (IWG) was established in November 2011 as an industry collaboration with the purpose of creating an open platform of tools and frameworks to simplify the creation of M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The goal of the group is to break down the silos that often occur between M2M applications and enable interoperability among different M2M devices, M2M servers, and enterprise applications.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Spring 2012 Training Series. These training classes are an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse BIRT, Eclipse Equinox/OSGi and Modeling technologies.

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the ecosystem. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony March 26 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2012.

The Eclipse Foundation announced today that it will be at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, with six co-operating Eclipse ecosystem members and a redesigned Eclipse Theme Island. In its 3rd year at CeBIT, the Eclipse Foundation Island provides a unique opportunity to learn about Eclipse open source software and the businesses, institutions and individual developers that make up the community.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Gold sponsors for the upcoming EclipseCon 2012 conference in Reston, Virginia on March 26-29, 2012. Actuate, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat and SAP have all agreed to be the premier sponsors of the annual Eclipse community event.

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, the Eclipse Foundation will be changing the mechanisms it uses to authenticate
user access to its various websites, such as Bugzilla, the Forums, and the Wiki. The purpose of this change is to simplify our
account management, reduce duplicate accounts and move towards open standards for user authentication.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program and tutorials for the upcoming EclipseCon
2012 conference. The annual Eclipse community conference is being held March 26-29, 2012 at a new location in Reston, Virginia. The
conference will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The speakers and program have been announced for the new Agile ALM Connect conferece, co-located with EclipseCon 2012.
Aglle ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

In the month of November, the Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years since the start of the Eclipse open source project. In November 2001, the Eclipse IDE and platform were first made available under an open source software license. IBM made the initial $40 million contribution of technology to start the Eclipse project that has now grown to technology commons with an estimated value of over $800 million. The Eclipse community has also emerged as the leading place for individuals and organiza...

A new open source industry collaboration, called Polarsys, is being created at the Eclipse Foundation to focus on building and maintaining tools for safety critical and embedded system development. Interested parties in Polarsys include Airbus, Astrium Satellites, ATOS, CEA, CS (Communication & Systèmes), Ericsson, IRIT (Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse), Inria, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Obeo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Tecnalia, Thales, and Xipp. Polarsys will...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new technical conference focused on connecting the latest
software development tools, Agile methods and people across the entire application lifecycle. This new conference, called
Agile ALM Connect, will be held March 26-29 in Reston, VA and will be co-located with EclipseCon 2012.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the recent Eclipse Indigo SR1 release includes full production level support for Java 7, the recent major release
of the Java SDK. Developers can now use Eclipse JDT to develop Java applications that take advantage of the new Java 7 features.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Fall 2011 Training Series. These training classes are an excellent opportunity
for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse BIRT, Eclipse Equinox/OSGi and Modeling technologies.

Registration is open for Eclipse Testing Day, 7 September in Neuss, Germany. This
day-long event features eight talks from experts in testing processes, tools, and technology, as well as
opportunities to see the latest offerings from Testing Day sponsors.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new open source initiative to define and implement a standard platform for the software
development tools used in the automotive industry. [German]

We are pleased to announce that EclipseCon 2012 is moving to a new location just
outside Washington, D.C. The annual Eclipse North American conference will be March 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia.

This year's themes are Eclipse Technology, Building Industry Solutions,
Community and Collaboration, and Other. The submission deadline is August 17. EclipseCon Europe
is three days of technical sessions, exhibits, and activities on November 2-4, in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates Chronon Systems, the winner of the first "Eclipse Hot New Products Showcase", held during EclipseCon 2011. Facing twenty other competitors, Chronon won with their "Time Travelling Debugger".

Formerly known as "Eclipse Summit Europe", EclipseCon Europe is the conference for anyone involved in Eclipse. As an Eclipse user, EclipseCon is where you will learn about the latest Eclipse products as well as picking up those valuable how-to tips from the experts and user groups. As an Eclipse developer, EclipseCon is where you collaborate with your colleages and do whiteboard planning for the next generation of APIs and features. As an Eclipse company, EclipseCon is the place to talk directly...

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the ecosystem. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony March 21 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2011.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that developers may now sign-up for access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion. Orion is a new Eclipse initiative to define a platform for building and integrating web development tools. An early release of Orion provides web developers with an editor for JavaScript, HTML and CSS that runs in popular browsers and the ability to easily link with popular web-based tools. The OrionHub service provided by the Eclip...

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Spring 2011 Training Series. These training classes are an
excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse Equinox, OSGi and Modeling technologies.

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are complete and
voting has opened for the individual
and project category nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates! Show your
appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.
More details about the awards and the nomination process can be found on the
...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Gold Sponsors for
EclipseCon 2011, the annual Eclipse community conference scheduled to be held March 21-24
in Santa Clara, CA. CloudSoft, IBM, Jasmine Conseil, Oracle, Sonatype and Xored have all agreed
to be gold sponsors for the conference.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program for EclipseCon 2011. The 4-day conference programm will feature 20 in-depth tutorials and
over 100 sessions convering a wide range of topics, including Eclipse Modeling, OSGi, EclipseRT, mobile development, Eclipse 4 and much more.

The EclipseCon program committee is holding another series of auditions on December 15, 2010.
If you're interested in speaking at EclipseCon, the audition sessions are your chance to present a short
version of your talk proposal to the program committee and the Eclipse community. These auditions are
your last chance to demonstrate ideas that the words in your submission couldn't fully capture.
The winning audition will be given a speaking slot at EclipseCon. ...

The Eclipse Foundation is
pleased to announce the release of Eclipse Virgo 2.1, a light-weight application server for deploying
applications based on OSGi. Eclipse Virgo was created in March 2010 and is based on the code
contribution of VMware's SpringSource dm Server product. This is the first official release of this
project since becoming an Eclipse project.

EclipseDay in Valencia
is being held in Spain on November 30 - December 1. This two-day event will
bring together the Spanish community of Eclipse users and developers from a wide range of academic, institutional
and business backgrounds. The main theme of the conference is Modeling, Methodologies and Model Driven Development. There will also
be other topics related to Eclipse projects...

The European Software Institute-Technalia is pleased to announce
Eclipse Embedded Day Spain, which
takes place November 9, 2010. The event is a day-long
conference for technical experts, software developers, Eclipse users and researchers from the Spanish embedded systems
community.

Eclipse Day Paris takes place November 5,
2010 and is a day-long event to explore Eclipse projects and topics for the French community.
The event is ideal for IT decision makers, software architects and process and methods engineers that
are interested in using Eclipse.

During the month of November, the Eclipse community will be hosting
DemoCamps in cities around the world.
For this series, the Foundation is introducing a new program to reach out to the academic and student
communities. Building on the success of our regular DemoCamp series, we invite
university students and professors to organize Campus DemoCamps...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynotes and technical program for the upcoming fifth annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) conference.
ESE is the annual Eclipse European community event planned for November 2-4, 2010 in Ludwigsburg Germany.

Eclipse
Day in Rome is being held on October 5, 2010. It is the first event taking place in Italy
that is focused on the enterprise adoption of Eclipse-based solutions.
The main topics that Eclipse Day in Rome will explore are service-oriented architectures, integration and
interoperability domains, and there will be specific use cases from the Eclipse ecosystem.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2010
training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software
developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), BIRT and Modeling technologies.
Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom
instruction and hands-on labs. Virtual and on-sit...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation Eclipse platform. Eclipse has a very
large and successful ecosystem of plugin providers and RCP application developers. Eclipse 4.0 introduces new features that make it easier for the members of the
ecosystem to build and assemble Eclipse plugins and RCP applications.

Bredex, MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce
Eclipse Testing Day
in Darmstadt, which takes place September 8, 2010. Eclipse Testing Day is a day-long
event for technical developers, testers, architects and managers to learn more about testing
with Eclipse and OSGi technology.

Today the Eclipse community delivers its annual release train, a coordinated release of the major Eclipse projects. For the seventh year in a
row, the 2010 release train, code named Helios, arrives on time and is now available for download.

We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse
projects that are being released as part of Helios. We will give you a
an Eclipse shirt for writing a review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to
EclipseCon 2011 or
Eclipse Summit Europe 2010!
To enter the blogathon, all you need to do is write a revi...

The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2010. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. The
Open Source Developer Report is a report and analysis of the survey results.

On June 24, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting Helios In Action - a
virtual conference where you can interact with project leads involved in the release and see
demos of the new features. The annual simultaneous release has now grown to 39 projects with
over 33 million lines of code, contributed by committers around the world. With such a large
global community, Eclipse wants to bring Helios to you! See the
Helios in Action...

MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce
Eclipse Embedded Day
in Stuttgart,
which takes place June 24, 2010.
Eclipse Embedded Day is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and technical
managers in the automotive, consumer electronic, medical, mobile and telematics industries to learn
how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the ...

Members of the Eclipse community will be celebrating the Helios release at
DemoCamps around the world from the last week of May until June 30.
Typically a DemoCamp consists of a series of short demos and presentations from developers building new
and interesting solutions with Eclipse. It is a great way to discover and learn about new Eclipse
technology. There is also lots of time for informal conversation and networki...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new SOA
Industry Working Group. The working group is a collaboration of industry players, including
Engineering Group, itemis, Obeo and Sopera.

Eclipse Banking
Day in Copenhagen is being held in Denmark on June 1, 2010. This full-day event will
provide an opportunity for senior technical developers, architects and managers in the finance
industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part
of their development strategy. Eclipse experts and leading financial institutions such as
...

The Eclipse Foundation wants to better understand how you develop software, use Eclipse and interact with open source communities. Therefore, we are asking
people to give us their feedback by participating in the Eclipse Community Survey 2010. The results will be published by the Eclipse Foundation in June 2010.

This week at EclipseCon 2010 two new Eclipse projects, Eclipse Gemini and Eclipse Virgo, join the EclipseRT community. These two projects provide important functionality required by organizations building enterprise solutions. Both projects represent important milestones in the continued growth of the EclipseRT community.

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of
the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in
the ecosystem. Recipients were
honored at an awards ceremony March 22 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2010. See the results at the
2010 winners page.
Congratulations!

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the spring 2010 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Virtual and on-site...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools with the Eclipse IDE. The project will create new sub-projects representing key IDE/ALM integration categories. New projects include: the "Tasks" project for integrating task and change management; "SCM" for integrating source code management; "Build"...

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2010 Eclipse Community Awards. Winners for each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 22, 2010 at EclipseCon. See the finalists here.

Do you have what it takes to be a rocket scientist? EclipseCon 2010 will be your opportunity to play with the top guns.
The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with NASA JPL, are organizing the e4-Rover Mars Challenge. EclipseCon attendees will participate in a contest
to create the very best robotic control system to drive a robot across a prototypical Mars landscape. The grand prize winner will be receive an opportunity
to visit the NASA robotics lab in Los Angeles, CA
...

To broaden participation in the Eclipse community, the Eclipse Foundation is introducing two new initiatives to encourage both
large corporations and small technology companies to participate in the Eclipse community.

Eclipse Foundation participates in new CeBIT theme island - showcases member company products and projects
The Eclipse Foundation announced today that they will participate in CeBIT 2010 with a themed
exhibit in the Open Source Forum. The exhibit will include Foundation members Actuate,
Bredex, EclipseSource and SOPERA.
The Foundation exhibit will cover such diverse tool areas as B...

The call for posters and Birds of a
Feather (BOF) sessions at EclipseCon is open. It's not too late to be a part of the program!
Posters are a great way to present your Eclipse topic informally while people browse the
displays and enjoy a few beverages. Posters will be presented during the Wednesday evening
reception. BOFs are informal, one-hour gatherings of people who want to talk about
a particular to...

Needham, MA, USA and Ottawa, ON, Canada - February 3, 2010 -
OMG™ and the Eclipse Foundation have issued a Call for Participation for the 2nd
Biannual Symposium on Eclipse Open Source Software and OMG Open Specifications to be held
June 23, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minn., USA. The submission deadline is February 24. For more
information visit http://www.omg.org/eclips...

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are complete and
voting has opened for the individual
and project category nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates! Show your
appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.
More details about the awards and the nomination process can be found
...

Ottawa, Canada - January 21, 2010 - The technical program and gold sponsors for EclipseCon
2010 have been announced. Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and Sonatype have agreed to be Gold sponsors for
the 7th annual Eclipse conference, to be held March 22-25, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA.
"Our sponsors provide the support necessary to make EclipseCon a continued success," said Mike
Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "The conference provides a vital
opportunity for ...

IT departments of large enterprises face unique challenges deploying Eclipse to thousands,
and even tens of thousands, of their developers. Join us for a webinar that
includes
speakers from Cisco, Morgan Stanley and eBay about some of the key challenges they face,
and steps they have taken to address these issues.
View the Webinar Recording
Format and Agenda:
Each speaker will present for up to 20 minutes, f...

The Eclipse Community
Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation for contributions that make Eclipse
a stronger community. There are three categories of awards - individuals, Eclipse projects and
technologies. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your
gratitude and nominate a person, Eclipse project or product that has made a difference to you.
Individ...

New release of Pulsar adds support for Ericsson and Sony Ericsson
CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment - SAN DIEGO, Calif. - October 7, 2009 -
The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new release of Eclipse Pulsar, an application
development tools platform for mobile developers. The new release extends support to the
Ericsson and Sony Ericsson developer communities.
Pulsar is the result of collaboration among leaders in the mobile industry to provide a
common set of Eclipse-based...

There are 2 weeks left to submit your
talk for EclipseCon 2010! The call for participation deadline is December 18.
However, we want you to submit your session proposal early, rather than waiting until December 18.
Therefore, if you submit a session by December 10, you will be eligible for the early bird program
selection. The program committee will pick 5 great talks for the EclipseCon
schedule from those submitted by December 1...

It is time to start thinking about submitting a talk for EclipseCon 2010.
The submission system is running, the program committee is ready, so now it is up to you to submit a
great talk. The deadline for submissions is December 18.

During the month of November and early December, members of the Eclipse community will be hosting
DemoCamps in cities around the world.
Typically a DemoCamp consists of a series of short demos and presentations from developers building new
and interesting solutions with Eclipse. It is a great way to discover and learn about new Eclipse
technology. There is also lots of time for informal conversation and networking,...

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2009
training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software
developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox
& OSGi and Modeling technologies.
Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom
instruction and hands-on labs. Classes have been scheduled in
23 different cities around th...

Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) starts in 1
month in Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 27. Now is a good time to register and book your hotel room if
you would like to attend.
The conference program is full of technical sessions, business talks and networking opportunities.
The tutorial & symposia day on October 27 is followed by 2 conference days on October 28-29.
There are 80 sessions scheduled, including ...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynote speakers and technical program for the
upcoming Eclipse Summit Europe
(ESE) conference to be held October 27-29 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
ESE is the annual Eclipse European community conference that features sessions, tutorials and
symposia on the latest Eclipse technologies.
Professor Tony Bailetti, from Carleton University in Ottawa, and Don Syme, Sen...

Eclipse Insurance
Day is being held in Cologne, Germany on September 30, 2009. This full-day event will
provide an opportunity for insurance experts, IT managers and software architects to
exchange experiences, get an overview of the options Eclipse is offering for insurance
applications, and learn how to leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community.
Core topic...

An early alpha release of e4, the next
generation of the Eclipse platform, is now available and we want to get the community involved!
Download e4 0.9 now to try it out.
e4 Feedback Contest
The Eclipse Foundation wants to hear what you think of ...

Registration for Eclipse Summit Europe 2009
is now open. The fourth annual Eclipse community event will be held October 27-29 in Ludwigsburg Germany.
This year the conference will feature five tracks: Runtime, IDE, Embedded, Modeling, and Other/New & Noteworthy. The
Call for Papers is now open. Individuals that are interested
in presenting at the conference are encour...

Eclipse Insurance
Day is being held in Cologne, Germany on September 30, 2009. This full-day event will
provide an opportunity for insurance experts, IT managers and software architects to
exchange experiences, get an overview of the options Eclipse is offering for insurance
applications, and learn how to leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community.
Core topic...

For the sixth year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered its annual release
train on its scheduled date. Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse
community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code. Over 380 committers from 44 different
organizations participated to make this release possible.

The call for participation is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe, the Eclipse Foundations
annual European community event, taking place October 27-29, 2009 in
Ludwigsburg, Germany. You are invited to submit proposals in five categories: 1) embedded,
2) IDEs, 3) modeling, 4) runtime, or 5) other new & noteworthy that is of interest to the
Eclipse community.
The Eclipse Summit Europe schedule will consist of one day of tutorials and symposia followed by
two ...

The first Eclipse
Acceleo Day is being held in Nantes, France on July 10, 2009. Acceleo is a component of
the Eclipse Model to Text (M2T) project and the workshop will be an event where users and
developers of Acceleo can meet, present their planned extensions, and discuss model-driven
engineering.
Topics of interest at the workshop will include MOF-to-Text l...

On June 26, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting Galileo In Action - a virtual conference
where you can interact with project leads involved in the release and see demos of the new
features. The annual simultaneous release has now grown to 33 projects with over 24 million
lines of code, contributed by committers around the world. With such a large global community,
Eclipse wants to bring Galileo to you!
Galileo In Action is free to attend and registering gets you into all 5 sess...

The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2009.
The purpose of the survey is to better understand how the Eclipse community uses Eclipse and open source
software and how people participate in and perceive open source software.

An Eclipse
Application Developer Day (EADD) is being held in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 7, 2009. This
full-day event will provide an opportunity for both new experienced Eclipse developers to learn
more about the Eclipse platform and how it is being used in every day applications.
The Eclipse Runtime will be featured in many aspects of the program including ...

Anyware Technologies and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce
Eclipse Time, a 2-day event
taking place in Toulouse, France, June 23-24, 2009.
Discover the Eclipse open source platform with business cases presented by experts.
Eclipse Time features well-known speakers from the community including Eclipse
Foundation members, software editors and companies that use Eclipse-based soluti...

MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce
Eclipse Embedded Day
in Stuttgart,
which takes place June 25, 2009.
Eclipse Embedded Day is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and technical
managers in the automotive, telematics, mobile, consumer electronic and medical industry to learn
how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclips...

To celebrate the Galileo release in June, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to attend
Eclipse DemoCamps around the world.
The DemoCamps are informal meetings where fans can present what theyre doing with Eclipse.
Events are planned from May 18 to June 26 and locations are listed on the
DemoCamp wiki.
We encourage individuals to showcase projects and products theyre d...

The Eclipse Foundation is requesting your participation in a community survey. The intent of the survey
is to better understand how individuals use development tools, use open source software and interact with the
Eclipse community. The Eclipse Foundation plans to publish the survey results in June 2009.
Everyone is invited to complete the survey before May 15, 2009. It sh...

The WTP project is excited to release the first of the open courseware that will be
a part of the WTP Education curriculum: WTP-101 Developing Web Applications with Standards. This open
courseware covers developing Web Applications with Standards using W3C standard technologies, such as
HTML, CSS, XML, XSD and XSL.
The goal of WTP Education is to enable and educate WTP end-users by providing them quality resources
for self-learning and to increase WTP awareness and usage by obtainin...

Community Members Announce New Innovations and Products
ECLIPSECON 2009, SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2009 
EclipseCon 2009, the sixth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention
Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference features the latest Eclipse developments and provides a
forum for attendees to discuss key business and technical issues facing the community.
Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor for the Interactive Telecom Program at NY...

Awards Recognize Top Individuals and Technologies in the Eclipse Community
ECLIPSECON 2009, SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2009  The Eclipse Foundation announced the winners of
its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community, yesterday on Monday, March 23, 2009. Recipients were
honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2009.
The Individual Awards acknowledge people that have ...

The Eclipse Foundation announced today the first release of Swordfish,
a next-generation enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides the flexibility and extensibility
required by enterprises to successfully deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy.

The Eclipse Foundation announced the results of the Committer and Sustaining
Members elections for representatives to the board of directors.
Congratulations to Chris Aniszczyk, Doug Gaff and Ed Merks for being re-elected as Committer
representatives. Boris Bokowski will join them as a new Committer representative. Mike Taylor will be
returning as a Sustaining Member representative, joined by the newly elected Hans-Joachim Brede, Hans
Kamutzki and Shawn Pearce.
The Eclipse Foun...

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2009 Eclipse Community Awards.
The Individual Awards recognize the people who have given their time to make Eclipse a vibrant and innovative
community. Finalists were selected by their peers in an online vote. The selection of the Top Newcomer Evangelist is based
on the individual that has answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.
Top Ambassador: Nick Boldt, Mik Kersten and Tom Schind...

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the spring 2009
training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software
developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox
& OSGi and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom
instruction and hands-on labs. Classes have been scheduled in
24 different cities around the world...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Eclipse Riena,
a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client
Platform (RCP) and Equinox.

Eteration and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce
EclipsIST,
the third annual Eclipse Technical and User Summit taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-29, 2009.
EclipsIST 2009 is a two-day event of fully loaded parallel speaker tracks followed by a
day of parallel power tutorials. With parallel sessions at any given time, attendees
can choose to attend the sessions that interest th...

The Eclipse Foundation is organizing an Open Source Executive Strategy Summit on March 26 in Santa Clara, CA (same location at EclipseCon). The Summit is for executives who are responsible for their organizations open source strategy and participation. The purpose of event is to answer two questions: 1) 'What Open Source Strategies Are Working Today?' and 2) 'What Will Work in the Future?'. It will feature industry speakers, case studies and group discussions that analyze the different aspects o...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a major upgrade to the popular Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications. The focus of the PDT 2.0 release is to add support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP and to improve the overall user experience of the PDT environment.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009, which will take place March 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Actuate, Blu Age, IBM, Red Hat, Sopera and Wind River have all agreed to act as the premier Gold Sponsors for the annual Eclipse community conference.
â€œThe support and leadership of these companies make EclipseCon a world-class conference,â€� said Mike Milinkovich. â€œThese companies also demonstrate the diversity of the Eclipse community by offe...

The technical program for EclipseCon 2009 has been selected and is now available on the
conference web site. The number and quality of submissions
received continues to increase each year, so the job of the program committee is always very difficult. Thanks to all
who sent in proposals.
Talks at EclipseCon 2009 include 80 long talk sessions and over 90 short talk sessions, organized within 18 tracks.
The different tracks r...

Registration for EclipseCon
2009 is now open. EclipseCon will be held March 23-26 in Santa Clara, CA. The "Very Early"
registration price is availabe until December 31 and gives a 40% discount off the onsite price.
A single fee provides access to the entire conference.
Three great keynotes have been selected for EclipseCon this year. They are:
The Social Mind as a Runtime Environment: Designing Like Groups Matter - Clay S...

The Eclipse Foundation is inviting all members of the community to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds of a feather sessions for EclipseCon 2009. The categories for submission this year include Runtime, C/C++, Tools, Mobile and Embedded, Modeling, Reporting, SOA, Test & Performance, Emerging Technology, and Business and Industry Verticals.
If you have expertise building and working with Eclipse, share your knowledge...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the Eclipse Summit Europe conference, to be held November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The two keynote speakers will be:
David Wood, Executive VP Research at Symbian. Mr. Woodâ€™s talk â€˜Why Should the Mobile World Go Open Source?â€™ will be his reflections on the possible upsides and downsides when open source software systems are applied in the fast-moving helter-skelter world of mobile phones.
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The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with 14 Eclipse Foundation members, is pleased to announce a new Eclipse Training Series to be held in 31 cities around the world. The instructor-led training courses will be held from November 3 to December 13, 2008 and feature classes on Eclipse RCP (Basic and Advanced), Eclipse Equinox and Eclipse Modeling technologies.

The deadline for the Eclipse Summit Europe Call for Papers is Monday, September 1, 2008. Eclipse Summit Europe is the Eclipse Foundationâ€™s annual community event for the European Eclipse ecosystem and is scheduled for November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

In June and July, Eclipse held a Ganymede Around the World Contest for individuals to submit their reviews of the Ganymede release. Over 600 reviews and messages were received from more than 70 different countries. All submissions can be seen on the Ganymede Around the World map. The reviews have been judged and the results are in.

The Eclipse Foundation and the entire Eclipse community are pleased to announce the availability of the Ganymede Release, the annual release train developed by the Eclipse community. The Ganymede Release is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams that represents over 18 million lines of code.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Eclipse Summit Europe on November 19-20, 2008, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The Eclipse Summit is the Foundationâ€™s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse and its members.

The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party for the Eclipse community at JavaOne. If you will be attending the conference, this is your opportunity to connect with other Eclipse fans and to have some fun. The party will happen Wednesday, May 7 from 7:00 pm-10:00 pm at the ThirstyBear Restaurant & Brewery.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to develop open source technologies for embedded and mobile developers. The new initiatives, part of the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project, make it easier for developers to debug, manage and deploy software on embedded and mobile devices. These new projects build on the continued success the Eclipse community has had in creating open source technology for the embedded and mobile industry.

The Eclipse Foundation today welcomed participants to EclipseCon 2008, the fifth annual Eclipse community conference, being
held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. EclipseCon 2008 will feature the latest Eclipse developments
and will provide a forum for attendees to discuss key business and technical issues facing the community.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of
its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community. Recipients were
honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2008.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Sun, the lead for the Java(TM) Persistence API (JPA) 2.0, JSR 317 standard has selected the EclipseLink project as the reference implementation. The Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink), led by Oracle, delivers an open source runtime framework supporting key persistence standards. The EclipseLink project provides a rich set of services that address complex mapping, performance and scalability and advanced functionality required for enterp...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a
lightweight OSGi compliant runtime. While Eclipse is well known for its widely used development tools, this initiative
establishes a community of Eclipse open source projects focused on runtime technology that provides a more flexible approach to
building and deploying software on mobile, desktop and server environments.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Higgins 1.0, a freely downloadable identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications and devices using an extensible set of components.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new series of RCP training classes, to be held between May 19 and June 13. In partnership with Eclipse member companies, the RCP training series is to provide in-depth education for developers building Eclipse RCP-based applications.

The Eclipse Foundation and compeople AG today announced that Riena has been successfully established as an open-source project within the Eclipse community. The Riena project will provide a homogeneous platform for business enterprise applications from the user interface to the back-end integration, based entirely on the Eclipse Equinox platform. By doing so, Riena will make it easier and much more comfortable to build multi-tier enterprise client/server applications, using Eclipse RCP (Rich Cli...

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards in the individual category are complete and voting has opened for the nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates! Show your appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.

Eclipse and OMG are jointly organising two one-day symposia to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open standards - one as part of EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, the other during the OMG Technical Meeting in Ottawa. Each symposium will be organised as a series of discussion sessions on corresponding OMG standards and Eclipse projects. In each case the purpose will be to discuss the alignment between current standard and implemented software, and...

The Eclipse Community Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation to individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a stronger community. There are two categories of awards - individual and technology. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your love and nominate a person or product that has made a difference.

The EclipseCon 2008 technical program has been selected and is now available on the conference web site.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to the program committee. The number and quality of submissions received was
tremendous so the program committee had a difficult time selecting the sessions, but it has made the final program exceptionally
strong.

The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new system to allow individuals to make a financial donation to the Eclipse Foundation. The
donations will be used to help fund the operations of the Eclipse community, such as extra hardware for open source projects, increase
bandwidth and sponsorship of Eclipse community events.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new open-source project called Hibachi. The Hibachi project provides an industrial-strength, vendor-neutral Ada integrated development environment (IDE) that also serves as a platform for other contributors to provide value-added functionality for Ada developers. Hibachi is a sub-project of the Eclipse Tools Project, and it parallels and complements CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling project, providing a multi-language native embedded soft...

The keynote speakers for EclipseCon 2008 will feature well known industry speakers including Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and open source advocate; Dan Lyons, also known as the Fake Steve Jobs; and Sam Ramji, Director at Microsoft Open Source Labs.

During the months of November and December, we are inviting individuals to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. Eclipse DemoCamp is an opportunity to showcase all of the interesting technology being built by the Eclipse community. It is also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.

It is now time to submit your talk or tutorial for EclipseCon 2008. The entire Eclipse community is invited to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions.

The Eclipse Foundaiton invites you to attend a party at the upcoming Eclipse World conference. A number of the Eclipse project leaders and committers will be on hand to demo their projects and answer your questions. Come early to chat and network with some of the leaders of the Eclipse projects.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. Eclipse PDT is a set of tools and frameworks that enhance the productivity of developers using PHP, a popular, general-purpose dynamic language that is especially suited for development of web applications and web services. This is the first Eclipse project that targets the large PHP developer community.

The 10% early bird discount for Eclipse RCP training ends this Friday, August 31, 2007. The Eclipse
Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies, is holding training sessions that will take place in Amsterdam,
Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Stockholm,
Stuttgart and Portland.

The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies
Anyware Technologies, AvantSoft, BREDEX, Industrial TSI, Innoopract and WeigleWilczek, are pleased to
announce a series of RCP training classes. Classes will occur between September 17 and October 5 and
will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris,
San Francisco, San Jose, Stuttgart and Portland.

The Eclipse Foundation is hosting its Eclipse Summit Europe conference for the European community again this year. The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place on October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The goal of the conference is to give the European Eclipse community a platform to collaborate, to promote cooperation among Eclipse projects, and to provide information to attendees about the Eclipse Foundation and its ...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of its annual coordinated project release, this year code named Europa. Europa features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers and is more than double the size of last year's record-setting release.

We are pleased to announce a new conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. This new conference is being organized in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation. The inaugural event will be held Nov. 26-30, 2007 in Hong Kong and is expected to attract open source developers from across Asia.

We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse projects that are being released as part of Europa. In fact, we will give you an Eclipse shirt for writing a Europa review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2008 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2007.

The Eclipse Foundation is looking for members to speak at Eclipse Summit Europe. Prepared presentations should last approximately 60 minutes, including 5 minutes of questions from the audience at the end. Submitted talks should focus on 1 of 2 categories: 1) Consumer Stories; or 2) New & Noteworthy.

The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party for the Eclipse community at JavaOne. If you will be attending the conference, this is your opportunity to connect with other Eclipse fans and to have some fun. The party will happen Wednesday, May 9 from 7:00pm-10:00pm at JillianÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s (www.jilliansbilliards.com). This is just around the corner from the Moscone Center in the southwest corner of the Metreon. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to JavaOneParty@eclipse.or...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming releases of the Eclipse C/C++ IDE (CDT) 4.0 and Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) projects. These Eclipse projects represent the core technology that is being developed for the embedded and device development community and have been widely adopted by organizations across the embedded and device software market.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced three new project milestones that extend the Eclipse platform for Ajax applications and dynamic languages. The three projects include the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) and the Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK). These projects provide innovative new Eclipse-based technology to be utilized by Ajax developers and developers using dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby and Tcl.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, products and organizations in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2007.

EclipseCon 2007, the fourth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Attendees from around the world are expected to hear the latest Eclipse developments and discuss key business and technical issues facing the community. Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, will give the opening keynote presentation. Additional keynote addresses will be delivered by Robert Ã¢â‚¬Å“r0mlÃ¢â‚¬ï¿½ Lefkowitz, a noted ent...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Open Source Pavillion at EclipseCon 2007, March 5th-8th in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Pavilion will showcase open source projects that support and
complement the spirit of the Eclipse community. ActiveGrid and Business Objects are co-sponsoring this event at EclipseCon.

The Bandit and Eclipse Higgins Projects today announced the achievement of a key milestone in the development of open source identity services. Based on working code from the two projects and the larger community of open source developers, the teams have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that are interoperable with MicrosoftÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Windows* CardSpace* identity management system and enable Liberty Alliance-based identity federation via Novel...

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced the release of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0, a collection of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment. With DTP 1.0, developers can now easily leverage existing data sources, such as enterprise databases, within the extensible Eclipse Platform. Data-related applications are growing i...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, IBM and Klocwork have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2007, the annual conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., March 5-8, 2007.

The Eclipse Training Working Group has completed its survey of the community and the results are available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Training_Working_Group
The survey was responded to by over 600 people and although its not a truly scientific sample, it does provide some very good insights into the area of Eclipse training and education which should be useful to us all.
Thanks to all the people who contributed to the development of the survey, to the community members who participated...

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced it has become a member of three industry specification groups: Java Community Process (JCP), Object Management Group (OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. The Eclipse Foundation has joined these organizations to further promote the relationship between open standards and open source implementations.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced the release of Eclipse Mylar 1.0. Mylar is a tasked-focused user interface that enhances developer productivity by reducing information overload and enabling easy multi-tasking.

The Eclipse Foundation announced today the keynote speakers for its fourth annual community conference, EclipseCon 2007. The conference brings together the Eclipse community to share and learn new techniques, ideas and technologies, as well as provide information about the latest developments and future plans of the Eclipse projects. The conference will be held March 5-8, 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

IBM is pleased to contribute translations for the Eclipse Project, the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project, the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project, the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project, the Eclipse Modeling Project, the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Project and for several subprojects of the Eclipse Tools Project for the Callisto releases.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced three milestone releases within the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Founded in 2005 as a top-level Eclipse project, the mission of DSDP is to create an open, extensible, scalable and standards-based development platform to address the needs of the device software market.

Today, the Eclipse community celebrates five years as an open source project. Eclipse has grown from its roots as a Java IDE project to become a universal development platform for building and deploying software. There are now 66 open source projects at Eclipse, generating millions of downloads. It is estimated that more than 1,300 Eclipse based products are now available.

EclipseCon 2007 is now accepting submissions for tutorial and session topics. Once again this year the Eclipse community is welcomed to submit ideas for the annual Eclipse conference. The deadline for tutorial submission is November 1, long talk submissions is December 15 and Short Talk and Demos is January 15. Details for submission guidelines can be found at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=submissions/...

We are re-designing the eclipse.org home page. The intention is to make it easier for our user community to find relevant information about the Eclipse projects and also make it easier to download.
Right now we have a beta version of the home page that will be displayed on a random basis to about 25% of the home page visitors. We have also opened a bug to collect feedback...

Participate at the Eclipse Summit in Esslingen, October 11-12th, 2006! The Eclipse Summit Europe, presented by the Eclipse Foundation is a unique event here in Central Europe. In addition to a variety of opportunities for networking with other members of the eclipse community, the program features tracks and events targetted for all parts of the community.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced that it has approved the creation of the Aperi Storage Management Framework Project. The Aperi Project, which was proposed in June 2006, will give customers more choices for deploying open-storage infrastructure software - based on an industry-stand ard framework developed by the open source community.

We would like to get your feedback on Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). EPIC is a portal for all things in the Eclipse ecosystem and we are looking to make it better. Please take the time to comple the online survey between now and September 20, 2006. For everyone that completes the survey we will enter you into a draw for a free iPod or one of four Amazon $100 gift certificates.

Eclipse Foundation today announced a recent Evans Data Survey confirms a significant increase in the adoption of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) by Eclipse users. Approximately 22% of the survey respondents indicated they were building rich client applications based on Eclipse RCP; an increase of over 130% based on a previous 2005 study. The survey also indicates strong future growth and interest in Eclipse RCP, with 68% of respondents indicating they will be using it in the next six mont...

The Eclipse Foundation today launched a community portal to promote the adoption of Eclipse-based commercial products, complementary open source projects and Eclipse-related training, support and services. The portal, Eclipse Plug-in Central ( EPIC), makes it easier than ever for developers, software vendors and enterprises to find high quality open source and commercial plug-ins, tools and add-on services to enhance their Eclipse development. The EPIC portal will be a key part of the Eclips...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new top-level project, called the Eclipse Modeling Project. The new project will focus on the evolution and promotion of model-based development technologies within the Eclipse community. Richard Gronback of Borland Software and Ed Merks of IBM were selected as project co-leaders, and are teaming to continue to advance Eclipse modeling technologies and to drive adoption of open standards related to software modeling.

We are having an Eclipse party at JavaOne. If you are planning to attend JavaOne, this is your opportunity to meet other people in the Eclipse Community. The party will happen, Wednesday, May 17 form 7:00-10:00pm at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company (www.thirstybear.com). This is just down the street from the Moscone Center. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to thirstybear@eclipse.org to be added to the guest list.
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The Eclipse Foundation today announced new project initiatives and releases for the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) and C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Projects, both increasingly popular with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and vendors of real-time operating systems (RTOSs), software development tools, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools. These new initiatives further extend the Eclipse ecosystem into the embedded and device software markets.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the board of directors approved version 2 of the Eclipse Development Road Map on March 20th, 2006. This road map is important for making Eclipse a predictable and reliable community for open source technology. The open and transparent governance of Eclipse facilitated a great deal of community involvement during the revisions of the road map.

Eclipse Foundation announced today new partnerships that strengthen the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project and has made available for download of the new proof of concept code which will demo at EclipseCon 2006. The ALF Project, initiated by Serena Software in the spring of 2005, addresses the universal problem of integrating Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technologies so that they provide full interoperability. Currently more than thirty vendors have pledged suppor...

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, Zend Technologies and IBM, today announced that the Eclipse PHP IDE project has been approved by the Eclipse Foundation. The technology project was proposed by Zend and IBM on October 21, 2005. It will deliver a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse Platform and will encompass the development components necessary to develop PHP-based web app...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced several new open source initiatives around the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to accelerate the adoption and utility of the Eclipse platform. Eclipse RCP is an integration platform for building and deploying robust rich client applications. Today's new project releases and new project proposals will further simplify RCP development and extend the usage of Eclipse RCP.

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of the Tools Services Framework (Corona) Project, to be led by Compuware. The creation of Project Corona comes less than six months after Compuware officially joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Member.

The Eclipse Foundation today kicked off its third annual EclipseCon 2006 user conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. This year's show is the largest gathering yet of the vibrant and active Eclipse community. The conference has attracted 46 exhibitors and 10 open source projects and features over 140 technical sessions. Industry keynotes will be delivered by luminaries such as Borland CEO Tod Nielsen, Greg Stein of Apache Software Foundation, Joel Spolsky of the...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its inaugural Eclipse Community Awards. Winners were selected by the Eclipse community and were honored at an awards ceremony last night on the opening day of EclipseCon 2006. The awards honor individuals and products that have helped further the reach of the Eclipse community and extended the ecosystem.

The Eclipse Foundation announced the results of the Add-in Provider and Committer elections for
representatives to the board of directors.
Congratulations to Howard Lewis and Todd Williams for being re-elected and Jochen Krause and
Mike Taylor as new Add-in Provider representatives.
Scott Lewis and Kai-Uwe Maetzel will be returning as Committer representatives, along with the
newly elected Jeff McAffer and Tim Wagner.
We're looking forward to wo...

Voting for the Eclipse Foundation Board Representative Elections for the committer and
add-in provider communities begins on February 13th. Please review the
candidates' statements and participate in discussions on the eclipse.foundation newsgroup
(news,
html).

Eclipse BIRT 2.0 Expected to Accelerate Business Intelligence and
Reporting Adoption Among Java and PHP Developers
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a
universal development platform, today announced broad support from industry leaders for
the new Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 2.0,
released on January 20, 2006. Actuate, IBM, Pentaho, Scapa Technologies and Zend have
announced support for ...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the addition
of the Open Source Pavillion at EclipseCon 2006, March 20-23 in Santa Clara, CA.
The Open Source Pavilion will showcase open source projects that support and
complement the spirit of the Eclipse community. Business Objects is a co-sponsor
of this new addition to EclipseCon.

Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, Compuware, HP, IBM, Serena and
Sybase to Provide Highest Level Support to Eclipse Community Event
The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, Compuware,
HP, IBM, Serena and Sybase have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2006, the annual
conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level
of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will b...

Eclipse WTP Project ships platform API for independent extension
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development
platform, will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec
19th, 2005. Eclipse WTP 1.0 is an extensible, standards-based tool platform for developing J2EE and Web
applications. WTP has already been adopted by the leading J2EE suppliers, including BEA, Borland, IBM,
JBoss and O...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the keynote speakers for its third annual community conference, EclipseCon 2006. The show brings together the Eclipse community to share and learn new techniques, ideas and technologies, as well as provide information about the latest developments and future plans of the Eclipse projects. The conference will be held March 20-23, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.